The antechapel where the statue stood Of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. Light - Page 7by Richard Cockburn Maclaurin - 1909 - 251 pagesFull view - About this book
| Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 366 pages
...page or two farther on, the subject rises to grandeur, and then Wordsworth is nobly worthy of it : — The antechapel, where the statue stood Of Newton with...prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. But the supreme poet is he who is thoroughly... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1904 - 676 pages
...organ was my neighbour too ; And from my pillow, looking forth by light Of moon or favouring stars, I could behold The antechapel where the statue stood...prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. I was disturbed at times by prudent thoughts,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1904 - 994 pages
...forth by light Of moon or favouring stars, I could behold The antechapel where the statue stood 60 Of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. Of College labours, of the Lecturer's room... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1904 - 416 pages
...forth by light Of moon or favouring stars, I could behold The antechapel where the statue stood 60 Of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever ^^^ Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. Of College labours, of the Lecturer's... | |
| John Marshall, Orlando John Stevenson - 1904 - 296 pages
...nor lie within sight of the antechapej PULL1C LiBKASY j APTOii, U:NIIX AND Tili'LN Fiii'N1HTiilN'8 BL Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and...forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone, without emotion, but college life and labors seemed frivolous after the grave and strenuous peasant... | |
| 1905 - 1008 pages
...organ was my neighbor too; And from my pillow, looking forth by light Of moon or favoring stars, I could behold The antechapel where the statue stood Of Newton with his prism and silent face, Conscious of the great names that hallowed every silent avenue, green garden and river lawn of the... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1907 - 546 pages
...organ was my neighbour too ; And from my pillow, looking forth by light Of moon or favouring stars, I could behold The antechapel where the statue stood...prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. [UNIVERSITY LIFE] • ••••• EASILY... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 610 pages
...description of Newton's statue at Cambridge, m "The Prelude ;" we see the great philosopher standing, " With his prism and silent face, The marble index of...forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone." The direction in which great discoveries will be made during the next halfcentury seems to be already... | |
| David Watson Rannie - 1907 - 422 pages
...readers know how, as he lay in bed in his rooms at John's, he could see much of Trinity, even — " The antechapel where the statue stood Of Newton with...prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone." In another part of The Prelude he narrates... | |
| Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker - 1907 - 758 pages
...the construction. Elizabeth completed it nine years later (1564). The ante-chapel contains the statue of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone a work of Roubiliac's considered by Chantrey... | |
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